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Costume. Chitons.

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remember you can always make your protagonist a lesbian with some kind of psychosis

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Winter snuggles

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Nosferatu's brother Yesferatu that everybody likes and is cool

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A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

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anne carson, everybody

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Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

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Aubrey answering little kids question about how she came up with the idea of writing the book Legend of The Christmas Witch

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merry christmas to the people who have to pretend to be someone they’re not for their families, who don’t have family to celebrate with, who have bad past experiences with the holiday, who are having a rough year and just want to reach the end of it, who couldn’t afford gifts this year and feel guilt over it. merry christmas to everyone but especially those of you who are feeling down.

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Merry Christmas!

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actually now i’m curious

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Dead and loving it...

Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois & Louise Marguerite Espérance Langlois - Illustrations from 'Essai historique, philosophique et pittoresque sur les danses des morts,' 1852.

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Christmas Eve with the Roe Deers/rådjur in Käxsundet. Värmland, Sweden (December 24, 2023).